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In Romania, NATO is building one of its largest airbases in Europe

FEATUREThe Mihail Kogalniceanu Military Base in Romania, built during the communist era on the Black Sea opposite Crimea, has undergone a transformation to strengthen NATO's capabilities in the east of the continent.

A flurry of excavators and trucks plowed through Dobruja, the vast plateau overlooking the Black Sea in eastern Romania. In the middle of this dry and not very fertile landscape, the machines were already digging, terracing and tracing out what will be a runway here, and taxiways for airplanes there. "What do you think?" asked Captain Engineer Aurel Bocai on Thursday, July 25, as he proudly toured the gigantic construction site, which had only begun a month and a half earlier.

An officer in the Romanian Air Force, he is the project manager for what he described quite simply as "the biggest construction project undertaken by the Romanian army since the 1990s." If the 250 machines deployed six days a week continue at this pace, NATO aircraft could be landing and taking off as early as 2027 on what will be the second runway of the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base. Built during the communist era, this military base located 30 kilometers from the Black
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/08/15/in-romania-nato-is-building-one-of-its-largest-airbases-in-europe_6716228_4.html